I think one of the earliest ghostwriters on the Planet was Cyrano de Bergerac, the poet whose love letters written for Christian, a young cadet, won the heart of Cyrano’s own love, the beautiful Roxane. Edmond Rostand’s play, written in 1897, has been played out time and again, from the 1950 Jose Ferrer film to [...]
Writing
It’s almost on us again: National Novel Writing Month – – do you have what it takes to join NaNoWriMo, the fun “seat-of-your-pants” approach to novel writing? Here’s the deal, per the NaNoWriMo site: Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
MSNBC had an interesting article on the use of less-than-perfect grammar for Web copywriting. The trick, the article says is "balancing proper grammar with a conversational tone." Since consumers need to relate to your message, write in the same conversational tone you’d use if you were hanging out at Starbucks with your ideal customer. What [...]
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